The Senate voted down amendments to the House FISA bill that allows the executive branch to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant, and grants retroactive immunity to communication companies that cooperated with the Regime's illegal domestic surveillance operations.
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Update: In a significant betrayal of his progressive supporters, Barack Obama voted for the fundamentally flawed FISA reform bill that the Charlatan immediately signed into law. A combination of fear, paranoia and fatigue contributed to the passage of the legislation which in essence legitimizes the illegal spying on citizens by the Regime in its misguided and mismanaged "War on Terror". Even before receiving the party's nomination Senator Obama has revealed his true stripes: a pragmatic Washington politician willing to trade on constitutional principles when expediency dictates. There will be no accountability for those corporate executives who bowed to the Regime's demands for massive eavesdropping. The forty pending civil rights suits will be dismissed as moot in accordance with the predictions by conservatives in Congress. Business as usual in the nation's capital. To count Barack Obama among those who do not think Americans deserve their privacy is truly sad, but a succinct indication of the alarming degradation of our democracy. ACLU President Anthony Romero, in a letter to supporters, said the provision means, "your phone calls can be tapped and e-mails read with virtually no proof of threat, and there's no chance to learn how the telecoms invaded your privacy." Railing against the collaborators' blindness and thanking the senators who stood for the Constitution is about all you can do that is still legal. Go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2 and tell the Senator what you think.